Odd day on the court yesterday...

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Coltdoggs

...late in the 1st half during a dead ball, I notice two players jockeying for position, doing the arm push, nothing bad at this point but I'm T and L is putting the ball in, so I blow my whistle to stop him and approach the two with the intent to talk to them and tell them to clean it up...as I'm approaching and saying "HEY..WATCH THE...." I notice WHITE player give a huge retaliation push and has now assumed the stance of Mike Tyson ready to fight, BLUE player just backed up, as he wanted no part of fighting....I immediatley blow the whistle and bang both players with Ts.

Grab my partner and inform him what I have, go to the table and inform them, then the coaches. FLAGRANT T on WHITE, he's gone...Unsporting T on Blue...he'll stay around...

White team coach wants to know if I saw blue player push and why his player is gone...I said "Yes coach, I saw both players pushing and saw your player taunt the kid, ready to fight...he's going to be done for the day as a result...additionally, I have charged BLUE player with a T as well for his actions."

Good call on the flagrant technical foul to White. Jmo, but a more accurate call might have been a double technical foul for the original "jockeying"( or a double warning if you felt the "jockeying didn't warrant "T"s), followed by a flagrant technical for the Tyson impersonation. That goes with calling everything in the order that they actually happened. The way that you did it means that the white player got away with the original "jockeying" and the blue player got called for his part in it.

If you do enforce the acts in order, you also nail the player who really deserves it. If you just call a straight double technical foul(as you did), there's no FT's and you go with the POI. If instead you call the double technical foul(or a double warning) followed by White's flagrant "T", Blue will get 2 FT's and the ball.... which is more appropriate imo.